Topher Grace Quotes

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

I really need a therapist.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.

I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

What I've been saying to people is that I write it.

The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.